Applying for job - advice pls

Savvy_Sue

I would only send an sae if they asked you to.

Also I wouldn't send the CV at this point. They're asking you to request an application form. Unless they are complete idiots who want to waste their time and yours, they won't look at your CV before deciding whether or not to send the form. They want you to apply by filling in the form. Also once you've got the form, you'll probably also have some more information about the job / company, so you can tailor your application to that. Without that additional information, your cv can only be very general: it's not an application for THAT job.

That is an important point: if a company wants you to apply using their form, use their form. Do NOT send a cv, however tempting it is to save time. If there's not enough room on the form, add sheets with the information laid out in the same way as the form, not the way you happen to do it on your cv.

Best of luck

LittleVoice

bumblebee23 wrote: »

Ugh 'Dear Sirs' is my personal pet hate, I get this all the time at work and I'm a MISS! It's so sexist and seems to imply that anyone in a position of power must be a male!

"Sirs" is plural and isn't meant to be to an individual person! Why does someone addressed as "Sir" have to be in a "position of power", it's just politeness.

"Dear Sir/Madam" could be used to an individual person - and so if the request is to go to a job title (rather than a named individual) would be OK - but you might as well phone up and find out whether the person who will be dealing with the request is a man or a woman and then get it right.